Hi all!
I'm trying to process the directory components of a path (as an array) so
that:
1. It will be portable. (Work on Unix, Windows, VMS, etc.)
2. It will keep the rest of the path components (if any) identical.
3. It will work on both relative and absolute paths.
If the processing is to keep only the directories after "long-dir" then:
UNIX : /hello/there/long-dir/another/myfile.txt ==> another/myfile.txt
DOS : C:\Hello\There\Long-Dir\Another\myfile.txt ==> another\myfile.txt
UNIX: ./hi/long-dir/another/myfile.txt ==> another/myfile.txt
DOS: .\hi\long-dir\another\myfile.txt ==> another\myfile.txt
To do this I turned to File::Spec and File::Basename and wrote the following
code which seems insanely complicated. I marked the place where I do the
actual processing using a callback:
{{{{{{{{{{{
use File::Spec;
use File::Basename;
sub _process_filename_dirs
{
my ($self, $fn, $callback) = @_;
my $basename = basename($fn);
my $dirpath = dirname($fn);
my ($volume, $directories, $filename) = File::Spec->splitpath($dirpath,
1);
# The actual manipulation.
my $dirs = $callback->([File::Spec->splitdir($directories)]);
my $final_dir =
File::Spec->catpath(
$volume, File::Spec->catdir(@$dirs), $filename
);
if ($final_dir eq "")
{
return $basename;
}
else
{
return File::Spec->catfile(
$final_dir, $basename
);
}
}
}}}}}}}}}}}
And so far I checked it works only on UNIXes (Linux in my case) and on
relative paths.
So my questions are:
1. Is there a simpler way to do it?
2. Does Path::Class or File::Fu or a different abstraction provide an easier
way to do it?
3. Is it still buggy?
--------
I should note that this hairiness is not limited to Perl. Common Lisp has a
built-in portable path-manipulation abstraction that's also relatively
complicated. See:
* http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/files-and-file-io.html
* http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-a-portable-pathname-library.html
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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